Well Christmas is finally over!!! It was a lot easier than I expected, having eight extra bodies in our home was a scary thought. We had no disagreements, and everyone worked well together. I didn't even have to do a job chart, things just got done, it was magical.
We had extremely weird weather. The week started out at -2 degrees with an ice storm. We were expecting a white Christmas but it didn't happen. Then on the 27th it was 67 degrees, we didn't even wear coats to the mall! On the 28th we went to the store again and it was cold but not bad, but by the time we were done with our shopping it had started freezing rain, and and we were cold!!! The next morning I was making breakfast when I heard a weird noise, and then realized that the sirens were going off I quickly realized that they weren't testing them so I ran and turned on the television to discover that we were in a tornado warning!! No joking one had touched down in the city just east of us. I got Matt out of the shower, ashliegh and dawn out of bed, Josh off the x-box, and the boys were mad because I wouldn't let them play in the toy room anymore!! We then spent the next half our sitting on the floor of the laundry room and spilled out into the hallway. Needless to say the weather was crazy!!
I was able to recreate my mothers homemade chocolates (raspberry, orange, and vanilla), I made her famous Christmas Eve Gumbo, Turkey dinner for Christmas, and a ham for one other dinner. There were lots of leftovers, but they were happily eaten. Alicia made wonderful fudge (just as creamy as moms), and Ashliegh made rolls (they were better than any I have attempted to make over the years).
Calvin and Brenden were successful at dumping every toy in the house out on the toy room floor and sometimes they were dragged into the TV room, just to help with the clutter there. They spent their first day together screaming and running around the entire house, Matt was not looking forward to the rest of the week if they were to continue that noise. Fortunately, it was just the first day jitters (and Calvin had been in a van for 8 hours that day too). Amazingly there were very few spats over toys and not sharing, they were awesome at sharing. It helps that they had the same toys and the ones that were most popular we had duplicates on hand.
Jonas never quite got acclimated to being at our house. He threw up all over his bed one morning and another evening he threw up all over Josh (as pictured in the slide show).
Ashliegh's flight was delayed and delayed and she switched flights at least three times before she settled on a straight through that was to arrive at 8:30pm, which was then delayed even more. She eventually got in at about 11:30pm and we subsequently got home around 1 or 2am, I can't remember. Josh rode with me to pick her up. She spent her week sleeping in and being the master guitarist at Rock Band. She was the last guest to leave and it was hard to let her go (mainly because we had to leave the house at 5am to get her to the airport in time for her flight).
Alicia arrived on the 22nd and Josh went to pick her up as well but this time had Ashliegh to accompany her. They were an exit away from the airport when the came upon a car that was in their lane, perpendicular to traffic. Josh very carefully approached and turned on his hazards, they got out and comforted the freaked out girl and let her call her mom from their phone. They were late in picking Alicia up but it all worked out. I tried staying up for them but fell asleep on the couch and woke up when they arrived because we had locked them out of the house!! OOPS. Cricket immediately remembered Alicia and wanted to sleep with her but Ali didn't want to wake up at 6am to let her out to pee. The boys were so happy to see her as well, when she woke up in the morning she chased them around for about an hour until they were all tickled out and she was out of breath. She was great at getting them tired!! I think she used it as her exercise for the week. Alicia was the lead singer for our rock band. She has some great vocals and especially loves Journey (if I ever hear another Journey song, it will be too soon.
Matt worked until the 23rd and fell asleep early every night, he says it was because he was helping Brenden to go down but I think he was really tired. When is he not really tired?! He did stay up on Christmas eve and play rock band and had fun with everyone doing that. He was pleasantly surprised with how smoothly the week went and how comfortable the house felt with all the extra people. He took lots of naps throughout the days and was very relaxed.
Josh was the real trooper!! He stayed up late every night and was the first adult up every morning taking care of all three boys while the rest of us slept in. I don't think I slept in too long because I felt bad as the hostess, but I did take advantage of him being up. He also was the one that was puked on, and cleaned up a lot of messes. He rocked out on all the different instruments and was the male vocalist for our rock band.
Dawn did a lot of sleeping in and going to bed early. Don't think she had it all great, she was the one waking up at all hours of the night to nurse Jonas, she deserved to sleep in. She got the girls to do yoga one morning, and helped out in the kitchen when she could. She also helped me with the boys, cleaning up the toy room, taking them potty, and entertaining them. She played whatever instrument that was open when she could.
Matt suggested at the beginning of the week that we go and buy the game Rock Band 2 because he thought it would be the perfect game for this crowd. And was he ever right!! It took a couple of days before we got sick of the music and finally broke down and got the cheat code to open all the music. Once that was done, they created their band. We settled on the name Pojo Puke (Poulton Jones Puke [due to Jonas' outbursts]) We had some favorite songs that were done, over, and over, and over. Josh, Matt, and Ashliegh decided to personalize their characters while the rest of us went to the store. Lets just say that there was a lot of hair, and makeup. Long live Pojo Puke!!!
I added our pictures to the slide show in my previous post. But here are some videos of our holiday.
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